Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-11-11
new ENGLAND NEWS.

The New Hampshire legislature has passed
the bill allowing the Boston q Maine rail
road to purchase the Eastern franchises and
property.
Governor Sawyer has vetoed the bin allow
ing the Boston & Maine railroad to lease the
Northern.
John Hodel, silk weaver, Of Willimantic,
Conn, while crazy drunk, killed his wife
with shot gun AMI set fire to the house and
sInothered two children, aged B and 6.
After his arrest he made confession and
declares he did the deed deliberately. he
told his wife he was going TO kill himself.
She insisted that he kill her first. This he
agreed to do He then, at the appointed
time, soaked q mattress with kerosene and
placed it on the sleeping children, setting fire
TO it, Then he shot his wife, who made no
resistance. He is carefully watched as hs
threatens suicide.
Quite u scare was caused in Winthrop, Me-.
by fire on the End. Fifty build ngs wers
consumed but the efforts of the fire depart
ment prevented any further damage.
The largest block Of Barre granite ever
QUAR- ell at Barre, Vt, weighs 50 tons. 1t
will be shipped to California.
Mr.. Frank Morse, paper manufacturer of
West Medway, Mass, was assaulted by
Charles Clark a former employe, and very
severely, though probably not fatally, in
asking for October wages, and Morse refus-
ing to settle till the regular pay day, Nov.
| 10. Clark followed Morse to his residence,
struck him on the nose, nearly cutting it
from his face, and four times on the back OF
the head. Morse, who hal fallen, was borne
home. Clark was arrested for simple assault
and battery. 1t is not known what implement
| he struck with. Morse says that when he
was struck he heard Clark say, "Now III
kill you"
1t is said that the minors employed in Fall
| River Mills who cannot read or write num-
ber 1926.
Tie Central Massachusetts will probably
| be completed to Northampton and opened by
Dec /.
Clara Ende,a pretty young girlof Windsor,
| Ct, lured to a house Of ill-repute near Hart
ford, was rendered violently insane by cruel
treatment.
Several Massachusetts railroads are adopt
| ing the Sewall system Of heating cars by
steam from the locomotive.
Inexpedent TO legisate is reported ON
the bill to prohibit the manufacture OF sp!r-
ituous liquors in New Hampshire.
Terrible injuries were received by a white
washer in Young's Hotel, Boston, by being
caught in shafting.
The Old Colony directors have voted to
recommend the lease of the Boston & Provi-
dence.
1t is feared that the town clerk of Brook
field, VT, has been foully dealt with, as his
whereabouts cannot be determined.
1t is said that s,toughton, Mass, school
master dismissed his pupils one afternoon
of last week because tie noise of a steam fire
engine at burning building near by made
his head ache.
A Boston barber wants to enter a shaving
| pputnst Sf oOv hprhnr in the world
Thomas Mcleod, brakeman on the Fitch
! burg road, was instantly killed at Prison
Point by jumping from train.
Owing to the unprecedented low condition
of Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Mass, that
city has been compelled to pipe from Stony
Brook reservoir.
The n. Y. G. n. E. Railroad threatens
to lease the pretty little park over its tunnel
on North Main street. Hartford, CT Much
feelinghas been aroused thereby, as the city
has taken entire care of 1t for many years.
Mr.. Charles H. Barnes, one of the promi-
nent furniture dealers of Boston, is to
transfer his business interests to San Diego,
Cal.
The postmaster general ha7 Issued an order
directing the postmaster at Boston to with
| hold payment of money orders and postal
notes sent to the National Card Co. doing
business in that city, and to return to the
| writers letters address ad to that concern IL
| is stated that this order is based upon evil
dence showing that the concern is fraud
Coal rises another 25 cents this week.
The N. Y. & n. E. Railroad has absorbed
the Housatonic railroad OF Connecticut.
The Boston aldermen have refused to con-
slider resolutions for stopping horse-car
blockades.
Miss Margaret Murphy, a South Boston
young lady of about %, poisoned herself
with Rough on Rats" She died in great
agony. 1t is said the girl was betrayed by
her lover, and took the poison while suffering
from an attack of temporary insanity.
Two young men of South Boston decided
to settle with the fists dispute over a girl
They accordingly formed ring at place
in Somerville near the Charlestown line, and
proceeded to pound each other. When they
got through they were sorry looking pair,
and late dispatches from headquarters do not
say who gained his point, although the fight
was awarded to one Of them Whether the
girl and re. cree agree is not known.